University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Whit Babcock wasn’t the first Virginia Tech athletic director to hire a basketball coach who had accomplished what the Hokies never have: advance three rounds in the NCAA tournament. Tech was reeling from three consecutive losing seasons in 1991, its worst such stretch in four decades, when then-AD Dave Braine hired Bill Foster to replace Frankie Allen. Out of the business for a year, Foster had been a head coach for 24 seasons, at Shorter College in Georgia, UNC Charlotte, Clemson and Miami, most memorably guiding Clemson to 1980 NCAA victories over Utah State, Brigham Young (Danny Ainge, Devin Durant, Fred Roberts) and Lamar before losing to Kiki Vandeweghe and UCLA in the West...

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